[Vm-dev] Re: platforms/unix/vm-display-X11.c revision 3499 breaks
use of fullscreen on Pi
David T. Lewis
lewis at mail.msen.com
Thu Dec 17 01:43:07 UTC 2015
On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 05:28:12PM -0800, tim Rowledge wrote:
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> > On 16-12-2015, at 5:20 PM, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
> >
> > So what window manager is rasbian using?
>
> I believe it is called LXDE, which probably means little more you you than it does me. More than anything it reads like the model badge on a 70???s Japanese car.
>
> > Does it work properly when you
> > run the VM with -fullscreenDirect on the command line?
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> It does. If we really need to I can add that flag to the startup script
> but I can???t help thinking there is a a better way out there somewhere.
>
Well, according to the internet, which knows a lot more about this topic
than I ever will, LXDE is a "Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment". And the
buggy window manager from the <vendor name deleted> extremely popular
Linux distribution is a feature rich, modern, and all around annoying
improvement over simple implementations such as LXDE.
So it actually makes perfect sense that LXDE might be a very simple window
manager that does not understand all the fancy bells and whistles that
have been added over the years, such as the _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN
window manager hint.
I think that adding the -fullscreenDirect flag when running under LXDE
is probably the right thing to do.
Dave
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